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A small, transparent, shell-less sea snail in the open ocean.
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Angels of the Sea

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A view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as seen from a NOAA research aircraft, June 2010.
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Discoveries Abound During Oil Spill Research

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A Captain’s Journey to the Antarctic

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A sailing canoe heads toward an island in the distance at full sail.
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Circumnavigating our Changing Oceans

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a sunken propeller becomes overtaken by a reef with two scuba diver in the background
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When Wrecks Become Reefs

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pancakes of ice cover the ocean
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Winter Under the Waves

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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a Māori woman in a navy blue fleece holds the skull of a beaked whale
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Tohunga Tohorā’s Intuition Reveals New Whale Species

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A zoomed in photograph of dyed animal cells.
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Meet Microsporidia, a Marine Microbe Related to Mushrooms

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Nimble Fingers: the Women Behind Maine’s Canneries

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Mary Rice: A Force of Nature

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Human activity is increasing in the Arctic marine environment due to climate change. To help the most vulnerable areas, the Global Marine Program of IUCN, along with partners, is convening a series of workshops aimed at enhancing ecosystem-based management and identifying biologically or ecologically important or vulnerable habitats. Burgerbukta, a bay in Svalbard, Norway, is being managed for ecosystem protection.
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What is the Sea Ice Minimum? (And Why Do We Care)

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